ABSTRACT
As technology and global competition continue to increase, organizational teams evolve to meet the internal and external demands driven by equipment changes in order to remain competitive within their niche. Whereas in some cases this evolution consists of minor adaptations, in other cases, it results in the formation of new team types. Therefore, the teams that are presently operating in the wild are in many ways not only different from the ad hoc teams often composed in laboratory settings, but also from organizational teams of the past. For example, the following have been mentioned as characteristics of teams currently operating in the wild: ill-structured, ambiguous tasks; distributed; heavy workload time pressure and high consequences for error; communication modes that are increasingly electronic and intensive; a mixture of human-human teams and human-computer teams; multicultural and multiteam systems composed of ad hoc teams. In addition, teams that operate in dynamic environments often have to contend with information overload and stressful environments.
